Mountainair, New Mexico.
Typical home $162,284 (-1.2% in a year). Albuquerque, NM metro.
to buy the typical home at today's mortgage rate — $7 (-1%) since Dec 2023.
- 1 year
- Down $1,916 -1%
- $164,200$162,284 since Sep 2025
Monthly payment to buy the typical home
Home value × that month's 30-year mortgage rate, 20% down, principal and interest. This is the line households feel: prices and rates compound each other.
- Mountainair$852
- New Mexico$1,658
- United States$1,922
Typical home values in Mountainair, NM fell 1.2% over the past year — slower than the nation's +1.2%.
Living in Mountainair, Torrance County, New Mexico
Mountainair is a town of 884 people in Torrance County. Half its households earn more than $43,021 a year and half less, against $57,842 across Torrance County. Unemployment in Torrance County was 6.1% in August 2026, and the county had 0.8% more jobs in 2025 than the year before. The most people in Torrance County work in schools and health care, then shops.
Written by AI Claude Sonnet 5.5 wrote this on 23 October 2026 from the figures here, a list of nearby places and what it knows. It can be wrong or out of date.
What it’s like
The place. Mountainair is a small New Mexico town in Torrance County, home to fewer people than most towns of its kind. Incomes here run below the county's, and homes are priced modestly. Winters are cold, with lows well below freezing in January, while summers turn warm without getting extreme, and the year brings a light covering of snow and not much rain.
Work. Most residents work in schools, hospitals and social care, in shops, in restaurants, hotels and entertainment, or in government. Across Torrance County, some of the largest workplaces are the Moriarty-Edgewood Schools, Torrance County itself and Estancia Schools. Fewer adults here hold a four-year degree than many would expect, and unemployment across the county has risen a little over the past year.
Things to do. Several archaeological sites tied to the old pueblo missions lie close by. Quarai and Abo are each a short drive away, and Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument is a longer drive. For time outdoors, Manzano Mountains State Park is a protected area a short drive from town.
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- 17%of adults have a degree
What people in Torrance County work in
Employed residents by industry, from the Census survey. Torrance County had 3,191 jobs in 2025, 0.8% more than the year before (Bureau of Labor Statistics).
Weather through the year
Coldest in January, with highs near 46° and lows near 23°; warmest in July, with highs near 87° and lows near 59°. About 14 inches of snow and 13 inches of rain and melted snow a year.
Average daily high and low, 1991–2020, at the Mountainair weather station, a mile away (NOAA).
Largest workplaces in Torrance County
- Moriarty-edgewood SchoolsSchool district359FTE
- Torrance CountyGeneral services departments, government133
- Estancia SchoolsSchool district78FTE
- Central NM Electric CooperativeElectric power distribution systems63
- Mountainair SchoolsSchool district44FTE
- CarvanaMotor vehicle dealers38
- Universal Waste SystemsGarbage collection services32
- National Park ServiceFederal government · Department of the Interior27
Staff on average in 2025, as each workplace reported it to OSHA with its injury records: 4 workplaces with 20 or more staff, 266 people in all across the county; Mountainair has one of its own. School districts come from the Common Core of Data (NCES, 2023–24) and federal offices from OPM's federal workforce data (2026); FTE marks full-time equivalent staff. Not listed: many offices and banks, which need not report to OSHA; military bases, whose staff OPM withholds; and, in about half the states, city and county governments.
Natural hazards
- WildfireRelatively high
- Winter weatherRelatively high
- Inland floodingRelatively high
- LightningRelatively high
- DroughtRelatively moderate
- HailRelatively moderate
FEMA’s National Risk Index (December 2025) rates the risk each natural hazard poses to the people, buildings and farms in Mountainair’s census tracts, against the rest of the country; all of them together, relatively moderate. It is meant for planning, not a substitute for a local risk assessment or a flood map: FEMA’s index.
From the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2020 census and its American Community Survey (2020–2024 five-year estimates), and the Bureau of Labor Statistics. A survey, so each figure has a margin of error, and figures it is not sure of are left out. More on Torrance County and the Albuquerque, NM metro.
Mountainair home values
Zillow measures a city over its municipal boundary. Against the state and national figures, mid-tier homes, smoothed and seasonally adjusted.
- Mountainair$162,284
- New Mexico$315,812
- United States$366,157
When this market ran hot
Each cell is that month's year-on-year home-value growth. Read left to right, top row is the latest year — the 2021–22 band is the boom.
Market heat, inside the city limits
Homes for sale
Active for-sale inventory. More supply hands power to buyers.
- Mountainair13
Zip codes with a Mountainair address
A different geography, not a breakdown. The figure above covers the municipality; these zips cover everywhere the Post Office calls Mountainair — often including townships beyond the city limits. Both come straight from Zillow, and they are not expected to average out.